Repeatedly meaning they have a seizure and have another straight after without ever regaining any sort of consciousness or alertness between seizures. If they are alert between seizures and are just having a lot of seizures that is a different story.

It's just like with you, it depends on the person and how their epilepsy is treating them currently. For example nine months ago before I started my current medication I could expect to have between 10-20 seizures a day. Now I have maybe 1-3 a day. All of that to say that nine months ago if I had seizures back to back "repeatedly" then nobody would think twice about it because I did do that everyday, multiple times a day. If I were to do that now people would, and probably should, be very concerned. That's why it's important to find out if it is a regular occurrence for the person to have back to back seizures before involving a hospital.

It is always the doctor's plan to manage seizures with medications to the point where we don't have any at all. For a lot of people it is a very lengthy process to find the right combination of medications to completely stop the seizures. Even when they are completely controlled though you can have what is called a breakthrough seizure that is too powerful for your meds to stop. That is usually when accidents like this on happen, people that have been on meds for years with no problem and then suddenly have one out of the blue.